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RWH012: Fear the Fed w/ Jim Grant

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

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The Great Inflation That Was Running From 1965 to 1981

The great inflation that ran from 1965 to 1981 was forming the backdrop of your career in those days as a financial writer. And I wondered if you could describe for us, for those of us who didn't experience it first hand, what you saw and how it shaped your views about the importance of sound money or fiscal discipline. It must have been kind of a rude awakening to see, I think, didn't inflation hit something like 15% in 1980? I mean, it was a terrifying time. But my goodness, inflation rate had been tripping up since 1965 but people were all too ready to declare an end to things when inflation is seated.

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